Sunday 27 March saw me take part in the 10K Newham Run, something I'd been training for seven months to compete in, with varying results. In August 2010, I found myself in an appalling state of repair, struggling to run for more than forty seconds without getting out of breath, and I thought that I'd honestly be lucky to make it halfway around the ( Read more... )

It's mid-week, and things are starting to go wrong. I have to be at a meeting in some coastal resort town by 10am, and as ever, the Victoria Line is not on my side, deciding to cease its services due to some random fault as it seems to do on half the journeys in any given week. Like half the train's load, I decide to pile off and divert via the ( Read more... )

Oh why not ( Read more... )

My apologies for cross-posting between this blog and "Left and to the Back" - I've been incredibly busy lately, and as many bloggers over the years have commented, we only seem to type up entries when there's either naff all going on in our lives, or things are going horribly wrong. When the people of the future look back on these under-read ( Read more... )

Just sent this email out, but now you good LJ readers can see it too:

Walthamstow gig 2 March

I've waited the best part of a decade for it to happen, but finally ( Read more... )

Amanda and I went to a Greek restaurant on Saturday night to celebrate a friend's thirtieth birthday (the friend came along as well, of course - we didn't both sit in the restaurant drinking to her health whilst she sat at home twenty miles or so away. That would have just been silly). While we were there, we observed something I personally haven ( Read more... )

I've just sent the below details out to a whole bunch-a people, but as there's a strong chance I don't have the email addresses of LJ readers, I thought it might be worth repeating myself here:

You may have heard me blethering on about it before, or you may not ( Read more... )

Consider yourself forewarned - I'm probably far too old to be complaining about this, but it's never stopped irritating me ( Read more... )

I did promise that I wouldn't post too many LJ updates about the development of my running skills in preparation for the 10k race in March - and to be fair, I think I've made good on that promise so far. One blog entry in the autumn last year was about all I managed. So then, I think I've finally earned another ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )